With the objective of implementing the Prime Minister’s vision of “Maximum Governance – Minimum Government”, the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Gujarat is organizing a two-day National Conference on “Good Governance” from 30^th to 31^st January, 2025 at Gandhinagar.

Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Bhupendra Patel and Union Minister of State Dr Jitendra Singh, Chief Secretary, Government of Gujarat will address the inaugural session. During the session, e-Journal on Administrative Reforms, titled Minimum Government-Maximum Governance in two volumes will be unveiled jointly by Shri Bhupendra Patel and Dr Jitendra Singh. Shortlisted initiatives of Prime Ministers Award for 2023 have been showcased in the two volumes of MGMG journal. The inaugural session would also be addressed by Chief Secretary Government of Gujarat and Secretary DARPG.

The conference will focus on government process re-engineering for providing citizen centric services. During the session, four innovative initiatives using emerging technology in public service delivery mechanism will be shared by the respective project officers. It will be followed by a brief presentation on Prime Minister Awards, 2024 and National Conference on e-Governance by Additional Secretary, DARPG and Joint Secretary, DARPG respectively.  The Conference focusing on Good Governance will showcase the holistic approach in the overall development of districts. Gandhinagar National Conference is the 27^th Conference on Good Governance practices organized by DARPG during the period 2014-2025. The main objective of the conference is to bring national and state level public administration organizations on a single platform to share experiences in innovations in public administration, future public solutions for improving quality of life, Good Governance, e-Governance, digital governance, etc. 30 Speakers including District Collectors/ Senior Officials of State/ Central Government to present their award-winning best practices in the National Conference. The National Conference seeks to disseminate best practices for replication. Altogether six sessions will be organized on various topics in the 2 days national conference to be held in Gandhinagar. The sessions include discussions on District level initiatives in e-Governance and Best Practices of Government of Gujarat in which senior officials of State Government will present their experiences. The Gandhinagar conference will further the government’s commitment to leveraging technology, fostering innovation, and delivering impactful governance practices across the nation.

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